As the home video industry gears up for the launch of 3D movies on Blu-ray next year, Sony’s music division has already jumped ahead with their own experimental 3D product. Launching today in Europe on Blu-ray is forsenses, a film that is designed to explore the boundaries of High Definition video, headphone-3D surround sound audio, and mobile 3D on the iPod Touch and iPhone.

The film combines footage shot by leading experts in high-speed, underwater, and helicopter cinematography, all intended to showcase the best of High Definition, with a “chill-out” musical track that has been specially mixed to create a 3D audio experience for use with a standard pair of headphones.

As scenes of volcanoes, cityscapes, whales, and mountain ranges move across the screen in intense detail, a new world music track plays accompaniment. Watch the movie normally and the music plays as a Blu-ray standard 7.1 audio mix, but plug in a pair of headphones and it becomes a 12.1 audio mix, with separate tracks and instruments seeming to play from different corners of the room.

Many of today’s Blu-ray releases come with a feature called Digital Copy that allows users to download a copy of the movie onto their computer or digital media player. In a nod to this feature, Sony Music partnered with Toronto-based Spatial View to bundle the disc with a special iPod Touch/iPhone case called the 3DeeSlide that adds the ability to display video in 3D without the need for glasses.

The way it works is that users download a set of free clips from the movie from the Spatial View website and then transfer them over to their iPod Touch or iPhone. They then slip on the included case (the bundle includes cases for both iPod Touch and iPhone) and then slide an included lenticular sheet into the case and over the screen.

The lenticular screen contains a system of special grooves that divide the video image into two, one for each of your eyes, thereby creating the 3D image. On Blu-ray, the movie is 3D in audio only, but once copied over to the iPhone, the 3DeeSlide turns it into a 3D movie too, one you can take with you.

The results aren’t as rewarding as the experience you’ll get watching a 3D movie in the Cineplex, the footage in this case wasn’t originally shot in 3D and had to be processed to simulate it, but the high resolution of the image delivers a sense of detail that helps create a sense of depth while letting the images really pop from the screen.

The 3DeeSlide is designed for use beyond the forsenses movie. Users can download additional clips, photos, and content from the Spatial View website as well apps to help them create their own 3D images and clips from the iTunes Apps Store. It allows movies to be watched in full, landscape view and doesn’t get in the way of Apple’s signature touch controls.

For both companies, the forsenses is a show-off product, once intended to capture technophiles and home theatre enthusiasts. For Sony Music, they plan to create an entire series of music-based or concert-based movie releases that play with cutting-edge audio and video called “blu: elements”.

For Spatial View, who is currently developing 3D HDTVs that work without the need for 3D glasses, the hope is that their 3DeeSlide accessory could be a way for the home video industry to carry-forward the concept of Digital Copy into next year’s 3D Blu-ray market.

While forsenses is not currently available for sale in North America, you can watch the film itself at the official website and if you have a pair of headphones handy, can even listen to it in 3D too.